question about splice performance

[Francis Moreau]

Hi,

I did a really basic benchmark and was suprise about the results.

$ echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
$ time  splice-cp  vmlinux /tmp/vmlinux

real    0m10.158s
user    0m0.002s
sys     0m0.401s

$ echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
$ time  cp  vmlinux /tmp/vmlinux

real    0m10.590s
user    0m0.017s
sys     0m0.459s


I was expecting splice-cp case to be faster.

Could someone enlight me ?

Thanks
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Francis
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